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Title: A short history of France from Caesar's invasion to the Battle of Waterloo
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances), 1857-1944
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Publisher: London, Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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es. And the rich, help-less city made the best terms it could with dangerousneighbours, swiftly growing as quick to betray as itwas accustomed to be plundered, well aware that itsreal life lay in no schemes of policy or deeds ofheroism, but in the task of producing bread for all. Thus it existed for some hundreds of years, beforeand after Christ ; and then, under the establishedrule of the Romans, happier days began. TheToulouse of the third and fourth centuries of ourera was a learned and pleasant city, famous for itsBar and its University : Palladian ToulouseAusonius calls it, and so do several of his contem-poraries. The great brick town, so populous that ithad founded four cities with the overflow of itspopulation—rose-red Toulouse, sheltered by its hugeramparts overlooking its orchards and its cornfields—appeared definitively seated in its peace and its pros- EUROPE in 485. Showing-the territories of thtGOTHIC NATIONS. Earlier Sea tsoftheGotlisthiisiGothsA.D.360)Scale of Mika
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THE KINGDOM OF TOULOUSE 23 pcrity when, with the very dawn of the fifth century,the Roman Empire crumbled and fell to bits. * In 402 Alaric the Goth invaded Italy ; in 406 theVandals entered Gaul; in 417 the Goths, now alliedwith the Romans, chased the Vandals out of Spain andsent two captive Vandal kings to Rome in a triumph.Then, in exchange for Spain, the Goths were awardedA^uitaine, The Pearl of Gaul, The Queen ofProvinces, with its towns of Bordeaux, Agen, Angou-leme, Poitiers, and, finally, Toulouse, where the Kingof the Goths set up his court. There were Gauls in Toulouse who went out intoexile rather than endure the yoke of the Barbarian ;such was a certain Victorinus, the friend of Rutiliusthe poet, who left the land of his birth to live inTuscany ; but there seems to have been no generalrevolt against- the Goths. For one thing, they werebrave soldiers, and the whole country round wasinfested by Germans : the Franks having settled in thenorth, the Burgunds in the west, and thshorthistoryof00robi

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